Wrangler - What to buy?

If you take out the passenger's front seat, you can get a couple more up front. :^)

Earle

Yep, 300 pounds of dog food worked for me OK once. It was on sale. Six 50 pound bags fit right in with the rear seat still in place folded down. Not a problem. Should not be a problem for the OP. Tomes

Bales of 90 pound hay as noted below, lol.

Thanks a lot, good people, for all the wisdom and experience.

This particular CJ-7 is such a junker, I'm advising my wife to give it to charity and take the tax write off. She uses our Dodge Cummins for commuting. The five ton Chevy is going to my nephew's house and I'll keep the John Deere for farm chores.

I can have the feed delivered, right to the barn door. I can buy beer in monthly quantities and I won't have to go to town for anything. Heckovadeel, ain't it?

Thanks again... Matt

Is there really 2000lb in a ton ? We have it at 2240 ( 20 x 1 hundred weight = 112 lb)

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

Yours is also called a "long ton". It is equal to 1.016 metric tons. 2000 pounds is a "short ton", equal to 0.907 metric tons.

Earle

We have an all up weight of 44 metric tonnes ( 97,000 lb) for 6 axled artics. How much did your trucks + trailers weigh, Bill ?

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

In Michigan the limit is 164,000 pounds with proper weight per axle (13K-16K pounds per axle)

"...there are only about

Michigan law (160,000-164,000 pounds), which is less

than one out of every 350 trucks on the road."

-Excerpt from Michigan DOT paper

The local cops stopped at Michigan registered truck with 154,000 pounds of rolled steel a few years ago on Sharon Road a few years back (4 lane blacktop)

I spent a couple of hours last winter watching 2 recovery trucks double-headed trying to recover a 100 ton capacity mobile crane up a steep hill. The crane weighed nearly 70 tons, and both recovery trucks had enough power to spin their wheels and start bouncing. Eventually the police cleared all the traffic on the road so they could have a long run up - they managed to get to all of 15 mph by the time they hit the bottom of the hill, but that was enough to make it.

Which would explain why we have to rebuild our highways every three years.

MDOT says only about 5% (1 in 20) trucks in Michigan are running at that weight.

Of course, in that same paper they claim that if the weight limit is reduced to 80,000 pounds the number of trucks on Michigan roads will increase by

And finally.... Costs for truck traffic is 40% while they are contributing